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A lot of the Macross 30 assets have different eye/visor colors from what I expect.  The 25A in SMS CF colors, for example, has a yellow eye whereas all the depictions I've seen of it (including the DX toy) have orange eyes.  Oh well, something for the to-do list.  I'm thinking about a full Pixie Squad group with colors for "the Other Two" as well as Klan, but also messing about with the YF-25 now (my own personal favorite of the 25s).  Will see what I can come up with (as well as what I can find time for).

Appreciate all the input!

Full disclosure, I did not make that mapping.  Turns out this is one of the planes avaialable in Macross 30, and can be found in the archive linked in this thread: 

Great resource and is where I've been grabbing some of the bits and pieces to build my models, along with the great stuff over on Cults3D.

Interesting, and yeah, I think I see it now on the Gu head.  Wierd.  I've seen the Master File page of heads before, but good to have it as a reference, thank you!  Messed around a bit on the weekend, and here's a very minor update of the CF 25A where I just took your advice and simplified the white striping.  Feels like I could do more with it, but might be a good time to quit while I'm ahead.  Oh, and here's Klan, too!  😉

Wow, that's wild, I've never seen either of those before, thanks for sharing!  The Trial Frontier version is simple enough and I can probably repaint that pretty quickly if I can make a 25S head to go with it.  The 25Gu is something else, I'm still having trouble parsing out what I'm seeing on the head unit, but I think I've got an idea of the shape.  Colors are again pretty straightforward and shouldn't be too tough to match.  About out of time today, but will take a stab when I get a chance.  

Also, appreciate the feedback on the 25A.  I think I agree, the white is too feathery and should just be a bold line.  That would be more in keeping with the 171 scheme as well.  Should keep me busy for a bit.  😉  Thanks!

Here we are.  Quick, cobbled together 25A head from stuff I found on the internet.  Not fully satisfied with the paint design, will probably play with that some more, but don't let anyone say I'm not responsive.  😉  Will take a stab at a Klan design when I get some time, but any references/suggestions people have would be appreicated.

Thanks, and shouldn't be too hard to craft the other head for a 25A version of the CF.  Are there any references for the Klan 25G?  I can use my imagination, but if there's anything "official", I'd like to start with that.

My only experience with the Revivals is the Alto 25F, but overall I'm very happy with it.  I'll admit it came with a loose shoulder joint, but a few drops of Kiki's (without disassembling) fixed it immediately.  It's a beautiful toy and, as I'm a latecomer to collecting, I was grateful for the chance to pick this up in the matte finish and bundled with the Super parts.  Even from a US distributor, it was less than the historic prices I'd seen for used Renewals (they've since dropped a lot on the secondary market, but the US price was still competitive for a new unopened item) so I'm fully satisfied with it.

Finished the CF version of the 25 and am pretty happy how it turned out.  And now that I have a template, churning out variants is pretty easy.  So, here is the finished model along with an Alto original, an MWW version (because I like the scheme), and a fire valkyrie version (because why the hell not).  I'm sure I'll be messing with others as ideas strike, but in the meanwhile hope folks like these.  Again, any feedback, comments, etc. are welcome.  I'm gonna go play with my fleet of 25Fs and see if I can figure out rendering in Blender.

Sounds good.  There were a few small things in the first episodes that may or may not be my bad memory (mostly with Roy and some of the establishing conversations he had with Aires and the chief mechanic about the zero), but the one that stood out was the beach scenes as the Anti-UN forces are invading the island.  The female marine that Shin had previously wrestled had a few moments of focus I didn't remember and there was more flow and dialog to flesh out what was happening than I recalled.  No idea if it's actually new or not, but nice little things that added to my enjoyment of it.

Another update:  color corrections to bring it closer to the screen appearance of the VF-171 in Frontier and added a Gerwalk mode to the scene.  Panel lines and detailing are next.  Don't know if it's any good or not, but it's looking like my intent when I started out at least.  I'll take the win.

Project update:

Cleaned up the design a bit (though I still think I'm overusing the black) and adapted some of the stuff I found in the Macross 30 archive to make a Battroid version using the same maps.  I'm liking it so far, but more fiddling to come.  Any thoughts, suggestions, or feedback would be welcome.

@reaper7092  Oops, never mind.  After a bit of internet spelunking and fiddling around over the weekend, I managed to stumbie into what I needed and get it to work.  Thank you again for making this resource available, it's amazing!  Really looking forward to poking around in it and seeing what I can do with it.  

Just got my copy and was able to sit down with it over the weekend.  Looked great to me and really liked having subtitles that weren't gibberish.  It might just be me, but it felt like there were some extended scenes and moments that weren't in the previous versions I've watched.  Could just be the result of "non-official" sources or my aging memory.  Either way, well worth the buy!

On 4/15/2023 at 1:27 AM, reaper7092 said:

My speculation is that some files use different encryption formats and will be skipped

For example, NUNS_maizuru carrier that cannot be extracted from "macross trial frontier"
 
And some maps cannot be extracted during "Macross Delta: Scramble"

This is all game resource that can be extracted from the "macross 30". You can search for it.

https://pan.baidu.com/s/1t52il63SDNmX3q3A49Z5jw
DL PASS:ab7i 

@reaper7092  Thank you very much for posting these resources, this is fantastic!  I'm a bit late to the party, but am really enjoying messing with these models.  Do you still have the instructions for how to extract content from Macross 30?  The link you posted on the previous page no longer seems to be active.  I'm happy to do the work to get what I'm looking for out of the data, but don't currently know where to start.  Any guidance you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Didn't think this deserved its own thread since I'm using someone else's models as my base, but wanted to share this and get feedback from anyone who is interested.

Always loved the NUNS VF-171s from Frontier, really a unique and good looking paint scheme.  Since the VF-25 was on track to become the mainstay fighter for the Frontier fleet, thought I'd give a try at coming up with a Frontier NUNS livery for it.  This is my first try at it.  I think I may have overdone it on the black highlights, but am still messing with it.  Let me know any thoughts, suggestions, etc.  Thanks!

No fancy backgrounds or lighting, was just fiddling with my most recent purchases and came up with something I liked the looks of and thought I'd share here.  Don't think I'll ever be up to the level of some of the talented folks in this thread, but these are fun toys to play with and are really capable of looking awesome in a bunch of neat ways.  Thanks for the inspiration!

 

Hello, I'm relatively new to collecting and just bought my first DX valkyries this year (a pair of 25s and a pair of 31s).  Both of the VF-31s (they are a 31C and a 31J) have an issue with the right hand wing where the folding end part does not snap into the "fully up" position and leaves a gap.  I read through this thread and much of the 31 DX thread and saw a few mentions of this issue, but no definitive solutions.  It's clearly interference from something "bottoming out" and not letting the wing snap home, but I've not been able to localize it so far (and not seen any sign of extra glue or sprue burs that are causing the problem).  I'm not averse to shaving and sanding, but want to make sure I go after the root cause and am not just trial-and-erroring it.  Since it's come up a few times here (and on both my items), it seems like there might be a common cause and it was worth asking about before I got out the knives and files.  Any input anyone has would be appreciated.

 

On 7/29/2023 at 11:07 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

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Macross Delta didn't really NEED a second movie, but Frontier did it so Delta had to as well.

The film's a mess for a bunch of different reasons, but Freyja's death at the end of the film would've been a lot more impactful and emotional if the entire rest of the film wasn't devoted to foreshadowing it with comical levels of unsubtlety.  In the first thirty minutes, Freyja sets up like a dozen death flags for herself ranging from tragic keepsakes to the promises of a future together to visiting the childhood home only for it to be destroyed.  They might as well have called the movie Macross Delta: Freyja Dies at the End for how unsubtle they were being about it.  They just keep harping on it for almost the entire duration of the film as if they were banking on the audience assuming that they'd never actually DO it.  Like the reverse of how they foreshadowed Ozma's death and he walked away with nothing but some bandages.

It could have been impactful and tragic... but instead she's played like the space idol equivalent of the elderly police sergeant who's two days from retirement in any cop drama, exerting such a gravity of imminent demise that it's practically enough to redirect bullets towards them.

There was always a suggestion of an unhappy ending hanging around Hayate and Freyja's relationship.  Not just because Hayate's the son of the most hated man in her home planet's history, but because the difference in their respective lifespans of Humans and Windermereans put a rather immediate cap on the duration of their Happily Ever After.  Hayate's a kid of 17 who, with the right medical care, could easily live another century.  Freyja's got 15-20 years tops.  The oldest Windermerean we see, who is so infirm due to his old age that he can barely get out of bed, is the 35 year old King Grammier Neirich Windermere VI.  How much longer he might've held on is unclear since he gets murdered during the TV series and is dead at the start of the movie version, but considering the average lifespan is said to be 30 one can assume Freyja would've been around for a good time not a long time and Hayate would've been a widower well before he hit 40.  The first episode of the series actually dispenses some of the same factoids that the people in Freyja's village do in the second movie... she ran away from home at 14 to avoid an arranged marriage because, in Windermerean terms, she was almost too old to get married and have kids.

Just my opinion, for what it's worth.  Overall, I agree with the general criticisms of the movie, but on the issue above....

Not sure if anyone is in the DC area, but apparently Kawamori and Tenjin will be giving a presentation on Macross's 40th anniversary and global roll out of stuff. at Otakon  2pm on the 28th of July.  

Otakon 2023 :: GrowTix

I'll mostly just be happy to have new Macross in whatever form.  it might not be what I personally want, but a lving franchise is better than nostalgia for a dead one.

If I'm wishing for stuff, though, I'd like a series with lower stakes this time around.  Something like Macross the Ride or Macross Plus where it's more of a perssonal story than a galaxy ending threat.  Looking forward to it either way, though.

Got my Alto out over the weekend and zoomed it around in all its forms.  I get all the shade thrown for quality issues (the right arm of mine is super floppy) on such an expensive toy, but at the same time in terms of anime accuracy, both in looks and transformation mechanics, it's really hard to beat these things.  Color me happy.

Funny enough, the thing that made me smile the most was the english translations in the instruction manual.  Not particularly necessary, but a nice touch that says "hello to our friends in the US".

Got mine from Kappa Hobby yesterday as well.  First time dealing with them, but have no complaints.  $255 delivered, which seemed competitive to slightly better than other venues, packaging was solid.  Haven't messed with the toy itself yet, but plan to give it some attention over the weekend.

Delta question:  I don't have access to the Master File for the VF-31, so I apologize if this is something obviously covered there, but is there any functional difference between the VF-31F, J, and C variants?  In Frontier, the 25S, F, G, and RVF all have specialized roles in a mixed arms group, and that's shown on screen in multiple examples, but I don't recall ever seeing any difference in the roles of Hayate, Messer, and Mirage in combat other than Messer's the only one allowed to scissor.  I assume the 31F is still meant to be the striker and analogous to Alto in the 25F, but what do the 31J and 31C bring to the game other than giving each main character an ace custom with a unique head?

Love means never having to explain your toy purchases.  😁

Hey, all.  Longtime Macross fan and have often eyed the DX toys with great longing, but they've always been too expensive and too much of a pain in the butt to get (for a US person not on the west coast), and I could never justify the expense and effort of going after one.  World Wide Macross and this release finally tipped the balance for me.  The matte finish, the bundled super parts, and a US release with free shipping for $260?  It's still expensive and it's still a toy for a grown ass man, but I bought it.

At least with it being a pre-order, I've now got a few months to figure out how to explain to my wife what I just spent my money on.  Heaven help me if they release the Delta Valks here (the original 31J and 31C, anyway, I'm not crazy about the AX vresions).  I feel like I've just stepped onto a very slippery slope.